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The three cornerstones to a healthy life are diet, exercise and sleep. Sleep is the easiest to fix! Read about the latest sleep research and get advice to help you learn how to get the best night’s rest possible. Check out the links to the left for the latest in sleep research and tips on how to sleep better.

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Our goal is to help you learn how to sleep better with sleep tips, advice, articles, and other resources. Take our all-new Zzzz Score, an 8-question survey that assesses your sleep habits and provides personalized tips and information on how to get a better night’s sleep.

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Clearly, employers are not responsible for the sleep quality (or lack thereof) of their employees. However, there is something they can do to help it. A novel new study published in the March issue of Sleep Health found that employees at an IT company slept an average of one hour longer each week when their bosses were…Read more »

According to a new study, if you’re the type who gets a better night’s rest from wearing a sleep mask and earplugs, you might consider looking into melatonin. Melatonin is the hormone secreted by the body to regulate sleep, usually in periods of darkness. Synthetically produced melatonin is used to boost the body’s own melatonin…Read more »

Power naps, quick sleeps in the middle of the day, are a wonderful thing. They can help make up for a bad night’s sleep the night before, relieve stress, improve productivity later in the day, and, according to new research, can also help boost your memory dramatically. Researchers at Saarland University in Germany tested the memory…Read more »

This is the latest installment of a regular feature here at SleepBetter.org: Sleep Myth Monday, where we bust sleep myths wide open, or verify that they’re actually not myths at all. Myth or Truth: An adult bedbug can survive for up to one year without eating. TRUTH It’s disgusting, but it’s true. Bedbugs seem to…Read more »

Have you wondered about something related to sleep, but just can’t find the answer? Lots of people do, and that’s why we created Ask SleepBetter. You can ask your own question on the SleepBetter Facebook Page, or by using our Ask SleepBetter contact form. We will try to answer as many questions as possible, but…Read more »

Many things are blamed for the overwhelming inability to get the proper amount of sleep. Included in that list are technology, work, and chronic pain. A new survey, however, points to economic trouble as being the top problem. The study, conducted for technology maker Phillips, included 7,817 people surveyed in the United States, Brazil, the UK,…Read more »

It’s March, and the college basketball conference tournaments have ended. The seedings have been selected by the NCAA, and that means all that’s left is for the games to be played … LOTS of games. March Madness, otherwise known as the NCAA Basketball Tournament, starts today. Over the two-and-a-half weeks , 68 teams from around…Read more »

Science has known for some years that getting less sleep than your body needs can lead to increased desire for fatty foods and thus weight gain. New research shows just how little of a sleep deficit is needed. “While previous studies have shown that short sleep duration is associated with obesity and diabetes, we found…Read more »

It’s the Monday after the beginning of Daylight Saving Time. We’re already enjoying the extra daylight in the evenings, but something’s just not right and we’re all really, really tired. Most likely, it’s that lost hour. For a lot of people, it doesn’t really sink in until they have to get up for work or…Read more »

The idea of beginning Daylight Saving Time is attractive in many ways. In the spring and summer, days are longer, which means outside activities after work hours. It also marks the end of the dark days of winter. The downside, however, is that we all lose an hour of sleep. It’s like a nationwide jet lag…Read more »

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Created by Carpenter Co., SleepBetter is here to help with one of the biggest problems facing individuals today: lack of sleep. Diet, exercise and sleep are the cornerstones of good health, and sleep is the easiest to fix. Let us help you! We provide sleep tips and advice through our hundreds of articles, and foster discussion on SleepBetter.org, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+. Using these tools, we hope to give others the information they need to make a choice to sleep better. If you have a question about sleep, just ask and we’ll try to help with an answer as part of our Ask SleepBetter feature.